The HATS STEDTRAIN Committee held their Final Reports Conference for 2024-25 Seed Grants on Saturday, 26 April 2025. Vice Chair Paul Agarwal hosted the conference, and COL Joseph Heyman, Acting Deputy Chief of Staff G-6 Chief Information Officer was the guest speaker.

Any teacher in a public or State approved k-12 school within Jackson, Madison, Marshall, Morgan, and Limestone Counties in Alabama and Lincoln County in Tennessee may submit a proposal.

STEDTRAIN is pleased to announce the award of 8 Seed Grants to area teachers to support STEM education in the classroom for the 2024-25 School Year.

The STEDTRAIN Committee is accepting proposals for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Seed Grant 2024-25 school year projects.

The Committee will fund 10 Seed Grants to area teachers for STEM projects.

The STEDTRAIN final report conference provides the teachers with an end-of-school-year opportunity to discuss the goals of their STEM grants and to proudly show the results of their student’s hard work during the year. The conference also provides an opportunity to network and brainstorm with the other STEM teachers who won STETRAIN grants for the 2022-2023 school year.

The committee now begins the arduous task of reviewing and scoring the proposals, and raising funds to cover the awards.

HATS proudly supports STEM programs like Greenpower through our STEDTRAIN Committee. STEDTRAIN provided some of the funding for Mill Creek's Greenpower Team this year.

Our STEDTRAIN Committee is accepting proposals for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Seed Grants, for the 2023-24 school year.

Lincoln County Robotics VEX Team 37334A has qualified for the 2023 Tennessee VRC HIGH SCHOOL State Championship Tournament

HATS congratulates the 11 winners of 2022-23 STEDTRAIN Seed Grants.

The Science and Technology EDucation and TRAINing (STEDTRAIN) Committee are pleased to announce the award of 11 Seed Grants to area teachers.

STEDTRAIN received 17 proposals totaling over $40k. They are no longer accepting proposals for the 2022-23 school year.

Woody Williams, the long time Vice Chair of the STEDTRAIN Committee has passed away

We are now accepting Seed Grant proposals for the 2022-23 School Year

The Science and Technology EDucation and TRAINing (STEDTRAIN) Committee announces 8 Seed Grant awards for over $12,844.

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